Candidate Profile

Experience

• ATC Uganda Limited
   2020 - To date :  Tax Manager
   Yearly Salary : UGX 132,000,000
   Job Duties : 
  My role involves managing the Company’s tax function. This includes ensuring tax compliance and managing the Company’s tax risks. I am also in charge of the tax reporting requirements in accordance with the accounting standards. My work includes advising on major investment decisions taken by the Company and highlighting the tax implications of such decisions. I also provide tax advice to on inbound and outbound investments. I manage the finance team to ensure that the Company’s operations properly cover the tax aspects as expected by the law. I also manage the relationships with several stakeholders from a tax perspective. The stakeholders include the Uganda Revenue Authority, The American Tower Corporation corporate office and the Company’s tax consultants.
• PwC Uganda Limited
   2018 - 2020 :  Assistant Manager - Tax
   Yearly Salary : UGX 70,800,000
   Job Duties : 
  I advised clients on local and international tax matters in Uganda and across East Africa. My work majorly involved advising on mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and tax treaty application. My work also involved providing advice in both the direct and indirect tax space. I provided tax advice to clients in respect to their inbound and outbound investments. The advice included: corporate restructuring, working on tax due diligences for mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity funding arrangements, structuring of investments, withholding tax planning to ensure efficient profit repatriation and equity divestment, sale purchase agreement structuring as well as advising on post deal implications . I was also in charge of learning and development where I develop the young PwC tax talent through developing training programmes to enable them have meaningful careers. As an Assistant Manager, I was responsible for leading the field teams that execute the clients’ projects. I also act as the first point of contact for the project clients and keep the project managers and directors updated of all ongoing issues. I was also responsible for the preparation and/or review of the project deliverables for the manager/ director’s review and/or signoff and managing the engagement economics ( i.e. Billings, Collections and managing Work in Progress) accordingly.
• EY Uganda
   2013 - 2018 :  Assistant Manager - Tax
   Yearly Salary : UGX 50,400,000
   Job Duties : 
  During my time at EY, I advised clients on local an international tax matters in both the direct and indirect tax space. My work at EY included assignments on Transfer Pricing ( i.e. Documentation, Efficiency building and preparation of Transfer Pricing Defence lines), tax advisory in corporate restructurings, mergers and acquisitions and pre setup advice. I was also in charge of tax compliance for several clients of the firm. In my role, I offered support in portfolio management to the portfolio manager, and I was exposed to clients in various sectors of the economy. This instilled in me varied technical skills in tax consultancy and advisory assignments. I was also in charge of the in charge of preparation of the project deliverables in our portfolio. As a Senior Tax Advisor, I was also responsible for training, imparting knowledge and transferring skills to the junior Tax Advisors in the department.

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